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Positivity bias in academic future expectations: Evidence from production and recall tasks in first-year university students

A journal article reporting evidence of a positivity bias in academic future expectations using production and recall tasks with first-year university students. Publisher metadata in the excerpt lists Elsevier BV and content type as a journal article dated 2026-10-01.

Percentage of Open Access journal articles available from ACS (black), Elsevier (green) and Sage (blue) vs. the original publication year according to Web Of Science on 2022-10-28.
Illustrative image: Percentage of Open Access journal articles available from ACS (black), Elsevier (green) and Sage (blue) vs. the original publication year according to Web Of Science on 2022-10-28. — Walter Tau/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Categories: science-and-space

Generated scores

Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.

Confidence
6/10
Geographic reach
1/10
Global importance
3/10
Impact magnitude
2/10
Positivity
7/10
Urgency
2/10

Why it matters

The study provides evidence relevant to understanding how first-year students form expectations about their academic futures.

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